I watched like 15 minutes of 2 and a half men a few weeks ago and said "Wow... what an awful 70s sitcom"
I had no idea it was actually a modern show until all the American news channels started talking about the actor going mental or whatever is going on.

Two and a half men just in watching the commercials alone, because I refuse to watch what helps to further dumb down the American audience, provides an opportunity to project what the next line is going to be it's so transparent in bad writing.

It's a shame though that that small screen medium provided an opportunity to see how bad an actor Sheen is.

I posted this because his latest personal business (aka/ Meltdown) is the hot ticket reporting on all the news channels front and center. It's sickening. With all the things happening in the world, in Libya for instance, what takes precedent? Sheen's latest flub up.

There are two salient points regarding the hypocrisy of it all though. First, his show character was created and named, after his personal bad boy image and exploits. So for the network, the fan base, the journalists who made a fine living off of huge gains in ratings, viewer counts, etc... to take umbrage that the Charlie TV character is now being bolstered by an even more volitile image thanks to the actor, is absurd and hypocritical.

And secondly, all these years that show's been on (which says nothing for viewer discretion though imo Seinfeld proved that long before) , his psycho behavior has been dismissed, tolerated and even given a raise because of the ratings his latest real life headline garners in viewership after. But because he made snide retorts to those which emanated from the show's Production team of late, that's when all of the sudden his producers and even publicist says his behavior is unacceptable!

Oh hell why not? Shoot a girlfriend in the arm, get a pass. Hold a knife to a 3rd wife's throat, get a pass. Party till your eyes melt, write checks to hookers, ball porn whores, get a pass because it's a personal life and it's not bad for business. But say something back to those in the business who trash him and his personal life and that is simply immoral! We're taking our ball Charlie and we're going home!

Hell, it really is a bass ackwards world on this side of the mirror suddenly turned upside down. I say we super glue Alice to the white rabbit and pay the chick back for making the whole world nuts!

(02-03-2011 09:28 PM)Free_Thinker Wrote: I never watched 2.5 men or anything else he ever made, but I find his "meltdown" highly entertaining, so much so that I joined twitter to 'follow' him!

To each their own.
I opine about it this much, but I don't take pleasure in watching a father of 5 crack. His kids are his responsibility thin or flush. However, to take pleasure in watching them slowly lose their daddy isn't entertaining.

(02-03-2011 09:28 PM)Free_Thinker Wrote: I never watched 2.5 men or anything else he ever made, but I find his "meltdown" highly entertaining, so much so that I joined twitter to 'follow' him!

THIS! Sorry I love it in fact I'm obsessed with it! At first I was a little bit torn because of the kids, but they've taken the kids away so RANT CHARLIE RANT!

Hey if he survives this he'll get help and I'll be entertained, WINNING! I he dies then that outcome was was inevitable. He won't die though because he has TIGER BLOOD and ADONIS DNA, BANG! Dying is for fools! Winner!